Reading Notes: Tejas Legends, Part B

This story is part of the Tejas Legends unit. Story source: When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends retold by Florence Stratton and illustrated by Berniece Burrough (1936).

Notes on When The Rainbow Was Torn

(Rainbow; Image from Pixabay)

• A group of flowers all used to be white
• They were white until the rainbow gave some of them colors, which they now have kept up until this time, while others remain white
• The white cactus flowers watched every time a rainbow came as it landed in two areas and gave color to everything it touched
• The rainbows never seemed to touch the white cactus flowers and no one knew why
• They thought it was maybe because of the thorns on the cactus flower, but that was just a guess
• One time after a big storm, the rainbow was getting ready to go down and touch the earth because it was filled with raindrops. The rainbow saw a group of cactus flowers hiding in the area where it usually lands, and tried to quickly pick itself up before landing on the thorny flowers
• The rainbow did not get back up in time, so it brushed across the cactus plants
• The flowers thorns could only get hold of the red, orange, and yellow colors, so from then on the cactus flowers have remained those shades of colors!